Tyler, The Creator was juggling the Marty Supreme shoot and the rollout of his Grammy-nominated CHROMAKOPIA album concurrently, finally getting joyfully misplaced within the artistic technique of the previous.
During an hour-long dialog with Ebro Darden for Apple Music, launched Wednesday (Dec. 17), Tyler and Marty Supreme director Josh Safdie each appeared again on this significantly busy time with mutual admiration for a way every was in a position to handle the managed chaos of all of it.
First, Tyler recalled being instructed by Safdie in 2017 that the Uncut Gems and Good Time filmmaker was planning to place him in one thing someday. This led to an in-office assembly with Safdie and star Timothée Chalamet in 2019, with manufacturing on the A24-backed Marty Supreme finally kicking off in late 2024. CHROMAKOPIAup for Album of the Year on the 2026 Grammys, was launched that October.
“It’s a scene where I’m in the car and I tell Timmy something. Not joking, it’s maybe 4:50 when we’re shooting that shot,” Tyler recalled. “Album just came out, been back and forth doing these shows [in] Atlanta, LA, blah blah blah. Come here, in this shit, acting. I ain’t got no sleep, nothing, but whatever. It ’s for the love of this fucking game. I’m so used to the warm weather back home that coming here and we shooting upstate and stuff, I got sick, like, from just the instant cold weather. So I’m whooped, bro. And I think my hotel had mold, like, not joking.”
Safdie mentioned these moments had been “special,” as he was working with somebody who had simply launched “this epic album” that was topping the charts, later likening the expertise to “having a director inside the scene” whereas he was taking pictures.
“I flew back a few times, so I think the third time I came back, it was still number one, like, third week,” Tyler added. “And none of that shit mattered. I was so excited to be on this set as the baby, as unexperienced, not knowing what I’m doing, at service and surrendering to this thing. … I love just jumping into new shit.”
Tyler went on to precise his want to “act so much more” sooner or later, with particular goals on someday enjoying a Lemony Snicket-like villain, and/or taking an element in a modern-day Paid in Full.
Marty Supreme is in theaters on Christmas Day. Coming quickly from Complex is a dialog with casting director Jennifer Venditti, whose previous credit embrace a number of movies from the Safdie Brothers universe, to not point out Euphoria.
This Friday, Tyler is launching his personal Marty Supreme assortment by way of Golf Wang. Here’s every little thing you have to know.